Did you know that a mob once burned an effigy of Thomas Paine in the market square in Leeds? And The Times was very keen that Paine should hang.
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In Sheffield, on the other hand, Edmund Burke was paraded around town riding a pig. (Not Burke himself, I assume, a caricature.)
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It was all go at the end of the 18th century. I blame the French.
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